The Penn's Grove record., 1887-05-28
NUMBER 43.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

An ocean steamship IS SAID 70 have
used $4,000 worth of coal on a recent
voyage.
For the theft of a shilling shirt a
poor devil in England was sent to a
cell for five years.
"A mandatory of bogus rare old
coins is said to have been found by de-
tect1ves in Pittsburgh.
Brick is being imported from Chi
cago to be used in a new city building
in San Diego, California.
"A new absurdity IS to put a Grape
bow on the collar of a pet dog whose
owner is in mourning.
"A season of German opera costs
every owner of a box in the New York
Metropolitan fully $4,000.
The Emperor Of Brazil, who has
been quite i'll, Is reported out Of danger
by the South American papers.
"A war" between sugar relners
in California is reported to he making
sugar dirt cheap" out that way.
"A petrified human being Is said to
have been discovered in a cave on Sand
mountain, Tennessee, a few days ago..
AT the door of a Partisan tobacco
4 obOp 10 bllO lCStLA NNDNlCIiCn dIG IT,
quested not to smoke inside the shop.n
The Granite Mountain Mine in
Montana has paid twenty-five dividends
in fifteen mosths amounting to ST.
300, 1000.
In Hawthorne, Nebraska, sand is
often used to %extinguish fires in the
absence of water, and it is said to be quite
effectual.
English is said to be the favorIte
of the new Turkish Minister to this
country, Malviri Bey, who speaks SIX
languages.
The yield of one Dakota farm IS
given as 10000 bushels of wheat,
5000 bushels of barley and Il, 900
bushels of oats.
The Chief Burgomaster of Berlin
gets a salary equivalent to about $500
per annum of our money, exclusive of
an allowance for rent. {
"A recent temperance lecturer pro-
pounded the theory that the bicycle is
a means OF grace, since none but a
perfectly sober man can ride one sue
cessfully.
London had. on March 10Th, exclu-
siye of lunatics IN asylums, patients IN
smallpox and fever hospitals, and va
grants, 103 ia paupers officially re-
ported in her care.
The first mass in the present limits
of the United States was said on the
spot recently occupied by the old Cath
edral at st. Augustine, Florida, which
was destroyed recently.
Measles broke out March % in the
Brooklyn Nursery, and of the 80 child
rem in the institution only five escaped.
Seventeen little ones died and SO re-
manned on the sick list.
"A party Of over 50 school girls at
tackled the Governor of California at
Red Bluff, in that State, recently, and
succeeded in obtaining a kiss apiece be-
fore he could be rescued.
Edward Gould. of Portland, at
more than four score, is still cashier
of the National Traders Bank Of that
city, a position which he has held con-
tinuously for ffty-three years.
The next Legislature of Rhode
Island will contain a Frenchman, who
was elected lately, an element of men,
bership not heretofore known in the
Assembly of that State 1t is SAID.
"A sort of Free Masonry, it is said,
exists among the Chinese that finds
expression on goods sent to their laud-
dry. Certain signs mean ''bad pay"
mo good, {" cheap slippery" etc.
"A postmaster at Cope, Indiana,
has resigned, but the rush for the sue
cess!on is not likely to be great. His
salary amounted to o cents less thar
half a dollar for the month of March,
"A party of sportsmen from Ogdens-
burg, NJ Jersey, had great success in
duck hunting recently, but it has since
turned gu that most of what they
bagged were the tame ducks of a gen.
tleman.
"A thief stole the coat of Rev. D. b.
Perry, of Brooklyn, while the latter
was preaching. succeeding also in car
ryiDg off the manuscript of his sermon
on The Wages OF Sin," which was in
a pocket of the garment.
"A woman of S~partanburg, South
Carolina. while carrying an artnIoad OF
wood, was attacked recently by a rabid
dog, but, dropping a portion of her
load, she turned the tables by beating
out the brains Of the dog with one of
her billets.
During the past winter Mrs. Mary
Miller, of Hillsborough, New Hamp.
shire (where the season still lingers),
fed daily eight gray squirrels, which
came to her door from the woods every
morning aud departed after having had
their breakfast.
In San Francisco there are four
Journals regularly published in Chinese
characters, These appear weekly and
have q circulation of $500 copies.
1t requires four persons to run a Chin
ese journal, an editor, a s~ub.editor, a
Translator and a printer.
Japan grows enormous quantities
of sorghum cane, and large quantities
of graduated sugar have been made
from it, The product for one year was
estimated at 5l2, 200. 900 pounds. The
principal crop of this country Is rice;
one-half the entire land under eultiva-
ton, 1t is said, being devoted to its
growth.
"A carpenter was blown from the
top of a twenty-five foot ladder in
Orange, New Jersey. while he was
making repairs TO a window, but he
carried with him the sash which, act.
ing as a parachute, let him gently down
to the lawn uninju-ed.
"A prize of 500 having been offered
for the best design for a new silver
dollar, the Macon Telegraph hopes to
secure it by this offer: son one side,
the rising sun, a e~ornucopia rampant,
and the legend, Honesty is the best
policy On the other in long primer,
'Turn the rascals out" Between the
two, one dollars worth Of silver.
"A large number Of images Of angels
and saints having been introduced into
the Cathedral of st. Giles, at Edin-
burgh, Scotland, a petition, signed by
500 residents OF the parish, was recently
pre- ented to the Edinburgh Freshly
terry, asking that the Courts should take
to have these images removed,
''as enjoined by the Bible and laws of
the national Church"
oil has been ststruekn in E0ypt bv